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Some songs last for centuries. They bring back memories alive and put us back in the days when we have met these tunes, whether they were good or bad, whether the day of happiness or of suffering. The best songs of the coming out of North Carolina Bowerbirds seem to be as timeless. The finest campfire hymns, sung by a couple who clings to his deep love for each other. "The Clearing" is the third album by the Bowerbirds, which some have compared to Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen. And as is so often the case with bands whose success is proof, they will have more time and better resources. This album is bigger, the sounds, the duo are courageous and willing to expand its radius.

Many songs on this album overwhelm the listener with a quiet but lively and flowing and pulsating Engerie kidnap gently on a journey into the stream from gradually stop off the peacefulness. The best example is the song "Hush" is. "He plays hide with vibraphone, piano and drums, while Beth Tacular's voice on the one hand exudes a sinister atmosphere, on the other hand, suggests resilience and strength," says the press release. He continued: "The fact is, these songs do not leave anything the grown production needs: guitars and strings, and codas between verses indicate urgent thoughts, full of vitality and necessity, without them to take a piece of their timelessness." We at The obligations.

The most complex piece of this album may well be "Walk The Furrows". The thematic core of the song - "the belief in a return to private life in a world full of temptations and distractions" - hits a sensitive nerve of our society. This message, which also calls the duo in the world are probably many people want to take it to heart. And it's not the best way to give people a lesson to those along the way? A sobering message wrapped in pleasant flying guitar accompaniment and haunting cello sounds, coupled with Philip Moore's slightly mournful voice and equally demanding.

Transported to "The Clearing" values ​​such as frugality with her ambition, as well as patience and understanding with expectations with intellect. Which suggests at first glance an inner conflict, which is undoubtedly in every big city people rumbles, but turns out as an attempt to put the listener into this emotional situations, him vermiteln as strong emotions, and so the largest possible catharsis, that is the cleaning of flat this to allow him to leave and live in peace and tranquility.

At the same time, the American duo aptly expresses his views on the world that truly realistic, but is also associated with a healthy dose of melancholy. Finally, it is more than for the third album Bowerbirds. On "The Clearing" Beth and Phil sing the best and most important moments of their lives while they inspire you to reflect on their own experiences prägsame and they live through before this wonderful musical experience again. In times like these, full of unrest and instability, such songs are "balm for our souls," writes the band.

And this balm can be applied quite fresh, for the Bowerbirds arrive on 4/27/12 after Müchen. It will be interesting how they manage the Orange House (Hansastr. 41, 80686 Munich, 20:00 clock) in a place of surging emotions and simultaneously transform the contemplation in the camp fire style that tries this cold, wet spring and we teach himself the awakening and the experience gained with the fire of the American Heart duo.